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Lu’s art work is taking off. Our friend Josette from Gray Area Gallery contacted me out of the blue because she heard about Lu’s great artwork. The result is that Lu’s artwork is showing all Saturday night during an all female-themed event.

To take it a step further, I said to Lu, you gotta do something new too! Something I have been batting around for ages with Mark Hellar and others is an event where people’s hard drives can be played back. Well, Lu’s hard drive is being played back on 3 screens live for the last half of the night!

More from Lu’s blog:

This coming Saturday, my videos will be screening at Gray Area Gallery from 8PM-4AM. Man, it’s an 8 hours screening! It’s hard to do without some partying! So this is a pride party night with all female DJs from San Francisco and LA.

My videos will be projected on three screens in the main space. From 8-10PM, they will be showing “The Plum in the Golden Vase”, “The Unique Dancers”, “Panda Express”, “Bump’n Grind”, “Don’t Talk About Politics’. After 10PM and the rest of the night, three screens will shuffle through video clips from my hard drives. They are clips of out takes of above videos, videos I have never shown, and old works back to 2001. This become a project itself I call it “Scratch”. Watch out! Dangerous dangerous!!

Text from Gray Area Gallery:

This Saturday night we will be inviting friends and family over for a Female Themed Pride Party. We thought it would be fun to celebrate and are excited to welcome- 3 talented queer female djs from los angeles: ANON, DAISY-O, and KIM ANH that produce Booby Trap.
They will be rocking Pride Saturday alongside San Francisco’s own DJs QZEN, ALONA, and, SIMILAK CHYLD.

BOOBY TRAP
is a weekly boob-friendly dance party in East Hollywood that attracts a crowded floor of hot, sassy, and did we mention hot? Ladies dance to upbeat electro pop and new wave from DJs ANON, DAISY-O, and KIM ANH (http://www.myspace.com/clubboobytrap). While the Hollywood crowds flock to Sunset, the savvy ladies East of Highland head to Booby Trap.

GAB would like to invite you to a special evening dedicated to celebrating women in honor of San Francisco’s pride weekend. We will be showing selected pieces from DEER FANG and an installation in our mezzanine.

DEER FANG

is a video artist working in San Francisco and Guangzhou. Her earlier projects investigate the condition of video in art making and the dynamics within the production process through participation, improvisation, real-time and socialization. Her current work uses common formats from popular culture such as the news, reality TV show, music videos, and online videos to dissect culture and political meanings in the media and in our everyday society. Fang studied in School of Visual Art with Luca Buvoli and completed her BFA in Graphic Design in 2005. She received MFA in New Genres (Video+ Performance) at the San Francisco Art Institute with Tony Labat, Paul Kos and Okwui Enwezor in 2007.

8 - 10 pm: Reception for Deer Fang (free wine)
10pm to Late (after-hours): DJs and Performances

Free before 10 pm
$10 after

Event proceeds support GAB & Bitch Magazine “feminist response to pop culture”.

I’m helping Lu out this week by teaching a couple of guest lectures. Believe it or not, Zhongshan University doesn’t have ANY web courses in their new media department! Here are the presentation as well for the students to use:

I’m testing out scribd as a presentation storage system since the traffic there is off the hizzle (shake your skittles).

I’ll phrase this as a question for comments: Should lawyers ever be in positions of power, or should they be contained as tools useful for specific tasks? Generically, does a law degree and the professionalization of legal professions afford a scalable grasp of increasing power inside organizations? Are their pointers to this? My skepticism of organizational operations and the functionality of certain professions in the workplace hopefully does not betray my own attempt at openness.

I am gearing up for writing a few big chunks right now, and for some reason these thoughts are rolling around in my head.

Also, if anyone is interested, I want to start a project and or follow any leads on what I’ve been calling, Experimental Law, or the practice of experimental law. What might that be, you ask? One idea is minimalist contracts where the aim is to increase legal exposure for the parties. NOTE: This is my personal blog and not one of the entities that pays me. I’m sure there is a practice like this, but I’m not aware of it.